The Bridge (2006) Documentary


viccarlton

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Has anyone else watched this documentary, about suicide at The Golden Gate Bridge, I found it very sad and quite disturbing at times.
 
I have watched it a few times, it used to be on YouTube but can't find it now. Him with the long black hair who just stood up and fell backwards 😢 so sad.
 
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I stood and looked at it when I was in San Francisco. It looks majestic. So sad to think hundreds of people have thrown themselves off it over the decades
 
Sure I watched a documentary (might have been this one) where a school kid on a school trip told his mates he would jump off for a dare. He did and survived and I think he was uninjured.
 
Went through a phase of buying loads of cheap DVDs of stuff I wanted to watch. This is before streaming remember. Couldn't get it any other way at the time.
Never got the buying DVD's thing. Especially this genre.
 
Has anyone else watched this documentary, about suicide at The Golden Gate Bridge, I found it very sad and quite disturbing at times.

Yeah I saw it a couple of years ago. Quite a harrowing watch. The director got into trouble as he told the authorities his cameras were there to film nature on and around the bridge and they had no idea what he was recording.

I found this long but excellent article on the subject by a painter on the GG bridge. He witnessed the poor lad you see jumping at the end of The Bridge. Some awful stories in it.

A View to a Jump: Working As a Painter at the Golden Gate Bridge
 
Was the only way to get a fillum you liked at one point. Plus they got dead cheap. You're talking 3 quid each or even less sometimes so was worth the money.

Never really been a one for going back to fillums much. Mostly one view and done for me Muxy lad. There are a few exceptions of course.
 
Never really been a one for going back to fillums much. Mostly one view and done for me Muxy lad. There are a few exceptions of course.
What are your exceptions Mowsy pal?

Any of the Alien films for me. Aliens in particularly gets watched a couple of times a year.
 
No offense, but were you expecting something different from it? 😂.
I’ve not seen it. Sounds harrowing though.

It makes you think too. For example it tells one story about a kid that jumped but on letting go regretted it instantly and tried to position himself as best he could to survive the fall - which he did.

He now campaigns for mental health but his dad was interviewed and he says his son now has to have a set lifestyle of constant routine, up at same time, breakfast dinner tea then bed at same time everyday. He acknowledged it’s no life for a young lad but if he deviates from it he goes off the rails and the suicidal thoughts again.

Apparently most survivors say they regret jumping as soon as they let go of the rail.
 

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